This morning I was driving Southbound on Imperial in Anaheim Hills, going up over the hill into Orange. There were four Anaheim motorcycle cops there, one with a customer, three with radar. After we cleared the top of the hill we passed another S2000 heading over the hill Northbound.

Is there some universally understood signal extant--or could we create one--to warn fellow S2Kers that cops are ahead and to cool it down for a space? I wish I had one this morning, and I hope he didn't get a ticket.

 

The one around here is... when everyone stomps on the brake and the unlucky one takes the fall... so far I taken 2 falls lol...

 

usually when my friends and i go out, we are in separate cars. we always drive...umm....spiritedly.

we use a whole bunch of signals with the lights, some meaning "cya later", or "speed up!", or "try and get this guy to race". the signal with my friends that means "SLOW DOWN, THERE IS A COP AHEAD!" is tapping on the brake to flash the brake lights about 4 or 5 times. (but tap just hard enough to light up the brake lights...dont make yourself look stupid traveling 70+ mph on the freeway )

 

Note: I was going South, he was going North. Having passed the cops going one way I wanted to alert someone going the other way who hadn't gotten to the cops yet.

 

This is a great question. Something that I have always wondered about.
There should be some universal signal to warn others.

If I see a radar cop on the other side of the road, I always flash my lights
in an effort to alert any other drivers that might become the next customer!

 

In Malaysia, it's common to flash your high beams at oncoming traffic to warn them about speed traps.
One car flashing their high beam at you on the highway could mean lots of things. However, because it's such a common practice, you often see four or five cars flashing their high beams within a short period of time when there's a real threat.

 

Flashing your high-beams is definitely the accepted (and only) way to warn on-coming traffic of a speed trap.

 

This is done in pretty much every country I have ever been to (which is a lot). The weird part is that it doesn't seem to be a common practice in the US. When I do it to warn people they always give me a funny look like I am crazy or being an a$$ or something.

 

Flashing the high-beams several times in succession is very common where I grew up in northern Baltimore county. I probably knew about cops 60% of the time from passing motorists. It's suppossedly ticketable if you get caught warning other motorists.

 

Flashing the high beams is the most common but that combined with the your arm out the window (hand flat to the road) moving in an up and down manor may work to help slow them down. Even if they don't understand it they may slow down trying to figure it out.